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New Defendants Tagged in FlickIntelligence’s AR and VR Campaign
New Patent Litigation
So far in April, FlickIntelligence, LLC, an entity associated with Ortiz & Lopez PLLC, has added suits against EON Reality (8:24-cv-00841) in the Central District of California and HTC (HTC America) (5:24-cv-02201) in the Northern District of California. The sole asserted patent generally relates to “displaying additional information about a scene element displayed in a frame of video content”. HTC is accused of infringement through the provision of the VIVE XR Elite headset, while EON Reality is accused over the EON-XR platform.
April 26, 2024
Dell Next Up for Atlantic IP’s Eireog; Amazon, for Its Croga
New Patent Litigation
Plaintiffs associated with Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited continue to file new cases, week after week. Eireog Innovations Limited hit Dell (1:26-cv-00416) in the Western District of Texas over four former NXP patents last week, while Croga Innovations Limited sued Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-00398) in the same district over a single former L3Harris patent. The Dell complaint focuses on the provision of a wide variety of products, including laptops, desktops, and servers, allegedly “using Intel-based CPUs (Haswell-based architecture and newer)”; the Amazon complaint, of the AWS VPC (Virtual Private cloud), AWS EC2, and AWS Network Firewall products.
April 20, 2024
Eireog Innovations Follows Up Campaign Launch by Suing Lenovo
New Patent Litigation
Eireog Innovations Limited has followed up its litigation debut last week—with separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Cisco, Fortinet, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks—by filing a case against Lenovo (2:24-cv-00239) in the same district. The plaintiff asserts the same four patents, again targeting the provision of products, this time ranging from laptops to servers, that incorporate certain AMD and Intel-based CPUs. This campaign appears to be at least the ninth from an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff to hit Lenovo and/or its subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
April 12, 2024
Mullen Industries Targets AR and VR Technologies in Second Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled plaintiff Mullen Industries LLC has launched a second litigation campaign, suing Meta Platforms (f/k/a Facebook) (1:24-cv-00354) in the Western District of Texas. The 11 patents-in-suit are described by the plaintiff as “directed to technological advancements and safety improvements in regards to augmented reality (‘AR’) and virtual reality (‘VR’) systems”, with Meta Platforms accused of infringement through the provision of certain Oculus- and Quest-series headsets, as well as related software products (i.e., First Encounters, First Steps, First Hand, First Contact, and Horizon Worlds).
April 4, 2024
Microsoft Brings Two Disputes with Individual Inventor to Federal Court
New Patent Litigation
Microsoft (2:24-cv-00448) has filed a Western District of Washington case against individual inventor ATM Shafiqul Khalid and his Xencare Software, Inc., seeking declaratory judgments of noninfringement of three patents, two generally related to a “mini-cloud system for enabling user subscription in a residential environment” and another to running “computer software applications” based on a “rule table”. Microsoft alleges that there is an actual and immediate dispute existing between the parties due to “substantial and substantive allegations of patent infringement by Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Xbox consoles and gaming services made in expert reports served by Defendants in Khalid v. Microsoft Corp.”—a state court action filed before the King County Superior Court.
April 3, 2024
Powermat Sues Belkin for a Second Time
New Patent Litigation
In its wireless charging litigation, Powermat Technologies, Ltd. has sued former licensee Hon Hai Precision Industry (Belkin) (2:24-cv-02595) for a second time, this time in the Central District of California. Per the new complaint, Belkin terminated a 2015 patent license agreement with Powermat in 2017, prompting Powermat to file a 2019 suit in the Southern District of New York that settled in 2020. Now, Powermat alleges infringement of five inductive power transmission patents through the provision of a long list of wireless charging products.
March 30, 2024
ACQIS Wins Its Second Infringement Verdict—11 Years After Its First One
Patent Litigation Feature
A Western District of Texas jury has returned an $18M infringement verdict in one of the longest-running patent litigation campaigns still active. On March 22, the jury found that ASUSTek infringed two patents asserted against it by inventor-controlled ACQIS LLC, following an extended back-and-forth over whether a claim construction ruling that led to a judgment of noninfringement in prior litigation should have a preclusive effect here. The verdict in this case is the plaintiff’s second, the first handed down in 2011 in the campaign’s inaugural lawsuit—which was filed all the way back in April 2009.
March 30, 2024
VDPP Keeps Filing (and Refiling)
New Patent Litigation
VDPP LLC added separate late March cases against Delta Electronics (Vivitek) (3:24-cv-01781), FinSim (SIM2 USA) (0:24-cv-60463), Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) (3:24-cv-01672), Mazda (8:24-cv-00571), Mercedes Benz (3:24-cv-00664), ViewSonic (8:24-cv-00616), and Xiaomi (5:24-cv-01783) to the suits that the plaintiff filed earlier in the month against Best Buy, Boxlight, Canon, Honeywell, HP, JVCKenwood, NEC, Qisda (BenQ), Razer, and Ushio (Christie Digital Systems USA). The inventor-controlled plaintiff targets the provision of image processing features in a wide array of devices, ranging from projectors to smartphones, baby monitors to in-vehicle surround view camera systems.
March 29, 2024
Judge Connolly Dismisses DJ Complaint Missing a Fraud-Related Claim
In Case You Missed It
Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly has dismissed a declaratory judgment action filed by Power Integrations against Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC; its “consulting” arm MAVEXAR LLC; an IP Edge-tied plaintiff Waverly Licensing LLC; and an IP Edge-tied intermediary Array IP LLC. The court notes that the complaint in question contains only a claim for a declaratory judgment of noninfringement of a single wireless charging patent, a claim mooted by the pack of covenants not to sue granted to Power Integrations by the four named defendants. Given the language of the dismissal memorandum, had Power Integrations pleaded “a RICO count with mail or wire fraud predicates”, the outcome might have been different.
March 15, 2024
Former BlackBerry Patents in Hand, Malikie Innovations Hits the Courts
New Patent Litigation
Last summer, the assignment of thousands of patent assets from BlackBerry to Malikie Innovations Limited, a subsidiary of Irish patent monetization firm Key Patent Innovations Limited (KPI), reflected the May 2023 completion of the deal between the two, described as involving the sale of “substantially all of [BlackBerry’s] non-core patents and patent applications”. Now, Malikie has filed suit, accusing Acer (2:24-cv-00179) and ASUSTek (2:24-cv-00178) in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints of infringing overlapping subsets of its received assets through the provision of features such as video coding, gesture-based touch controls, and power management within various devices, including Chromebooks, docks, laptops, and tablets.
March 15, 2024